Rest is Holy
The Silence Where God Whispers
Rest is holy. It is the space where striving ends. Silence has a voice; it sings softly beneath all things, reminding us that love needs no effort to be heard.”
Ana Otero
The moon does not strive to shine, she simply reflects what she receives.
Her radiance is effortless.
In a world addicted to motion, we have forgotten that illumination is the natural state of the soul when she rests in her Source.
We have mistaken constant activity for growth, and achievement for worthiness. Yet the deepest transformation happens not in the noise of doing, but in the quiet of being.
Blessings descend when the dew of heaven meets the earth.
This is the mystical union of heaven (the realm of spirit) and earth (the body, the heart, the material world) embracing as lovers.
It happens when we cease striving to earn love and allow ourselves to become the field where heaven and earth meet.
The body is that field.
The breath is that dew.
The stillness between thoughts is the soil where divine seeds awaken.
When the soul becomes silent, God whispers in the subtle pulse beneath all things. In this silence, every cell remembers the covenant of abundance: as above, so below; as within, so without.
The striving ends, and the blessings begin.
The moon illumines effortlessly, and the earth opens to receive.
This is prayer without words, the Shabbat of the heart,
where rest becomes revelation, and silence speaks the Name of Love.
The great mystic St. Teresa of Ávila knew that divine communion could not be reached through effort alone. She wrote:
“It is love alone that gives worth to all things.”
— The Interior Castle
For Teresa of Ávila, love was not earned; it was received. The soul’s task was to become quiet enough to recognize what was already present.
In her own journey through the “mansions” of the soul, she discovered that contemplation was not about striving toward God but about allowing God to be fully alive within:
“We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.”
— The Way of Perfection
Rest, then, becomes an act of faith, a surrender into the Divine Presence that is already here.
When we practice holy rest, we enter the vibration of trust.
We stop measuring our worth by productivity or performance.
We remember that our being, not our doing, is the true offering.
The soul does not grow by force; She unfolds when given the light of gentleness and the soil of stillness.
As Teresa of Ávila said:
“Let nothing disturb you,
let nothing frighten you.
All things pass away;
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
Whoever has God
lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.”
The same patience that allows the moon to shine without striving allows the soul to remember her own radiance.
Where in your life can you lay down striving and enter the stillness where the soul begins to speak? In that sacred quiet, the true longings of your being rise like prayer,and what you hear is not separate from God, but the Divine breathing through your own desire.
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I am wishing all of you a blessed Shabbat Day.
Ahava,
Ana Otero
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